HALIFAX – After 20 years with the union, and 17 years serving as president, NSGEU President Joan Jessome has announced she is stepping down from her post.
“I have decided that it is time to move on to new endeavours,” she wrote in a letter released on Friday.
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Jessome will be running for the position of secretary treasurer with the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) in Ottawa in June.
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She will finish out her term as NSGEU president, which ends in May.
“[I will work] to address the privatization threat to many of out members and the ongoing attacks by the [Stephen] McNeil government, as well as ensuring Civil Service negotiations are concluded and rounds of Health Care negotiations begin as planned,” the letter reads.
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